Beth Spenciner Rosenthal
Biographic Data
| ID | 5822044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beth Spenciner Rosenthal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beth Spenciner |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenthal |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENTHAL B S |
| AFFILIATIONS | City University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Race/Ethnicity and Mental Health in the First Decade of the 21 st Century
Recent empirical studies on mental health generally report racial/ ethnic differences in depression rates but typically do not control for potential confounding by sample contextual variations in historical epoch, geographical location, and social demography. An empirical study of race/ethnicity differences in psychological distress is reported as an attempt to control these contexts by using a sample that is homogeneous in age, historical epoch,…
Psychological Effects of Attack on the World Trade Center
Four different studies using a total sample of 711 from the same New York City student population tested a model that has emerged from previous research on disasters. The model suggests that postdisaster psychological distress is a function of exposure to the disaster, predisaster psychological distress, acute distress following the disaster, time elapsed between disaster and observation of distress, and additional traumatic experiences since the…
Relations of Psychological Distress With Objective Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Characteristics of Urban Adolescents
This paper describes the relations of psychological distress with 11 ecological factors (5 community, 4 family, and 2 individual) among 423 older urban adolescents who are predominantly people of color. Data were obtained by means of self-report via group-administered questionnaires given between 1994 and 1996; most scales are multi-item. There is wide variation in distress. There are very few statistically significant relationships between the e…
Relations of Psychological Distress with Objective Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Characteristics of Urban Adolescents
This paper describes the relations of psychological distress with 11 ecological factors (5 community, 4 family, and 2 individual) among 423 older urban adolescents who are predominantly people of color. Data were obtained by means of self-report via group-administered questionnaires given between 1994 and 1996; most scales are multi-item. There is wide variation in distress. There are very few statistically significant relationships between the e…
Exposure to Community Violence and Trauma Symptoms in Late Adolescence
Exposure to Community Violence and Trauma Symptoms in Late Adolescence
This paper presents a comparison for two samples (college and noncollege) of older, urban African-American adolescents of correlations between two measures of exposure to community violence (victim and witness) and four types of psychological trauma symptoms (anger, anxiety, depression, and dissociation). The central issue is the generalizability of previous findings about these relationships obtained from beginning college students of traditiona…
Relationship Between Exposure to Community Violence and Psychological Distress
This paper presents data testing the hypothesis that the relationship between exposure to recurring community violence during high school years and later experiencing of psychological distress symptoms is a quadratic curvilinear one. Data were collected between 1994—1996 by self-administered questionnaires using multi-item scales; the sample (N = 452) comprises older urban adolescents. Although exposure to community violence was positively and li…
Relationship between Exposure to Community Violence and Psychological Distress
This paper presents data testing the hypothesis that the relationship between exposure to recurring community violence during high school years and later experiencing of psychological distress symptoms is a quadratic curvilinear one. Data were collected between 1994-1996 by self-administered questionnaires using multi-item scales; the sample (N = 452) comprises older urban adolescents. Although exposure to community violence was positively and li…
Non-school correlates of dropout
Graduate Social Work Student's Beliefs About Poverty and Attitudes Toward the Poor
Data were obtained from 137 MSW students in three schools of social work about the students' beliefs about and attitudes toward the poor. These students reject both a belief in the individual cause of poverty and an aversive orientation toward the poor. However, they have sever misperceptions about the economic situation of the poor and do no perceive the poor as being anywhere near as financially deprived as they are in actuality. Implications f…
Anxiety and Performance in an MSW Research and Statistics Course
Data from 162 MSW students were analyzed to test the propositions that social work students have high levels of anxiety about research and statistics and that this anxiety has a detrimental effect on students' performance in a required research and statistics course. Levels of anxiety about research and statistics were very varied and only 12% of the stuents bad "very high" levels of anxiety. The relationships between such anxiety and performance…
Upper Middle Class Support for the Idea of Family Allowances
There is a newly arisen opportunity for reassessment and redirection of children's policy using non-ideological, pragmatic solutions. Middle class attitudes toward family allowances are crucial to the implementation of the proposed solutions. This paper presents preliminary data indicating that current middle class attitudes are favorable toward the idea of family allowances. Potential explanations of this phenomenon are presented along with poli…
US social workers' interest in working in the developing world
Non-school correlates of dropout
Graduate Social Work Student's Beliefs About Poverty and Attitudes Toward the Poor
Data were obtained from 137 MSW students in three schools of social work about the students' beliefs about and attitudes toward the poor. These students reject both a belief in the individual cause of poverty and an aversive orientation toward the poor. However, they have sever misperceptions about the economic situation of the poor and do no perceive the poor as being anywhere near as financially deprived as they are in actuality. Implications f…
Anxiety and Performance in an MSW Research and Statistics Course
Data from 162 MSW students were analyzed to test the propositions that social work students have high levels of anxiety about research and statistics and that this anxiety has a detrimental effect on students' performance in a required research and statistics course. Levels of anxiety about research and statistics were very varied and only 12% of the stuents bad "very high" levels of anxiety. The relationships between such anxiety and performance…
US social workers' interest in working in the developing world
Graduate Social Work Student's Beliefs About Poverty and Attitudes Toward the Poor
Data were obtained from 137 MSW students in three schools of social work about the students' beliefs about and attitudes toward the poor. These students reject both a belief in the individual cause of poverty and an aversive orientation toward the poor. However, they have sever misperceptions about the economic situation of the poor and do no perceive the poor as being anywhere near as financially deprived as they are in actuality. Implications f…
Anxiety and Performance in an MSW Research and Statistics Course
Data from 162 MSW students were analyzed to test the propositions that social work students have high levels of anxiety about research and statistics and that this anxiety has a detrimental effect on students' performance in a required research and statistics course. Levels of anxiety about research and statistics were very varied and only 12% of the stuents bad "very high" levels of anxiety. The relationships between such anxiety and performance…
Upper Middle Class Support for the Idea of Family Allowances
There is a newly arisen opportunity for reassessment and redirection of children's policy using non-ideological, pragmatic solutions. Middle class attitudes toward family allowances are crucial to the implementation of the proposed solutions. This paper presents preliminary data indicating that current middle class attitudes are favorable toward the idea of family allowances. Potential explanations of this phenomenon are presented along with poli…
Non-school correlates of dropout
Exposure to Community Violence and Trauma Symptoms in Late Adolescence
Exposure to Community Violence and Trauma Symptoms in Late Adolescence
This paper presents a comparison for two samples (college and noncollege) of older, urban African-American adolescents of correlations between two measures of exposure to community violence (victim and witness) and four types of psychological trauma symptoms (anger, anxiety, depression, and dissociation). The central issue is the generalizability of previous findings about these relationships obtained from beginning college students of traditiona…
Relationship Between Exposure to Community Violence and Psychological Distress
This paper presents data testing the hypothesis that the relationship between exposure to recurring community violence during high school years and later experiencing of psychological distress symptoms is a quadratic curvilinear one. Data were collected between 1994—1996 by self-administered questionnaires using multi-item scales; the sample (N = 452) comprises older urban adolescents. Although exposure to community violence was positively and li…
Relationship between Exposure to Community Violence and Psychological Distress
This paper presents data testing the hypothesis that the relationship between exposure to recurring community violence during high school years and later experiencing of psychological distress symptoms is a quadratic curvilinear one. Data were collected between 1994-1996 by self-administered questionnaires using multi-item scales; the sample (N = 452) comprises older urban adolescents. Although exposure to community violence was positively and li…
Relations of Psychological Distress With Objective Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Characteristics of Urban Adolescents
This paper describes the relations of psychological distress with 11 ecological factors (5 community, 4 family, and 2 individual) among 423 older urban adolescents who are predominantly people of color. Data were obtained by means of self-report via group-administered questionnaires given between 1994 and 1996; most scales are multi-item. There is wide variation in distress. There are very few statistically significant relationships between the e…
Relations of Psychological Distress with Objective Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Characteristics of Urban Adolescents
This paper describes the relations of psychological distress with 11 ecological factors (5 community, 4 family, and 2 individual) among 423 older urban adolescents who are predominantly people of color. Data were obtained by means of self-report via group-administered questionnaires given between 1994 and 1996; most scales are multi-item. There is wide variation in distress. There are very few statistically significant relationships between the e…
Psychological Effects of Attack on the World Trade Center
Four different studies using a total sample of 711 from the same New York City student population tested a model that has emerged from previous research on disasters. The model suggests that postdisaster psychological distress is a function of exposure to the disaster, predisaster psychological distress, acute distress following the disaster, time elapsed between disaster and observation of distress, and additional traumatic experiences since the…
Race/Ethnicity and Mental Health in the First Decade of the 21 st Century
Recent empirical studies on mental health generally report racial/ ethnic differences in depression rates but typically do not control for potential confounding by sample contextual variations in historical epoch, geographical location, and social demography. An empirical study of race/ethnicity differences in psychological distress is reported as an attempt to control these contexts by using a sample that is homogeneous in age, historical epoch,…
Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (8 works) · Psychiatry (8 works) · Mental health (6 works) · Psychological distress (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Distress (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (4 works)